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Home Dictionary Name: one way Page: 2 Page 2 of about 100 results (0.005 seconds)Statement of fact
Statement of fact, for the purpose of section can be one which is capable of proof as 'false' and which the maker either 'believe to be false' or 'did not believe to be true' at the time of making it. A question of fact is one capable of being answered by way of demonstration - a question of opinion is one that cannot be so answered. The answer to it is a matter of speculation which cannot be proved by any available evidence to be right or wrong, Gadakh Y.K. v. Bala Saheb Vikhe Patil, AIR 1994 SC 678. [See Representation of People Act (43 of 1957), s. 123(4)]...
Shuffle
To shove one way and the other to push from one to another as to shuffle money from hand to hand...
Question of fact
Question of fact, is one capable of being answered by way of demonstration, a question of opinion is one that cannot be so answered. The answer to it is a matter of speculation which cannot be proved by any available evidence to be right or wrong. The past history of a company's business is a matter of fact, but its prospects of successful business in the future is a matter of opinion, Salmond on Jurisprudence, 12th Edn., p. 69: AIR 1994 SC 678.Means an issue that has not been predetermined and authoritatively answered by the law. An example is whether a particular criminal defendant is guilty of an offense or whether a contractor has delayed unreasonably in constructing a building, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1260.Question of fact might be stated in an issue without pleadings by consent (C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 42), and may now be so stated under (English) R.S.C. Ord. XXXIV, r. 9.In general when a jury is sworn it decides all the issues of fact; but if there arise in the course ...
free associate
to express ones thoughts ideas impressions etc in an unplanned and unstructured way allowing each thought or idea to prompt recollection of the next one It is a process used in psychotherapy...
Counterbrace
To brace in opposite directions as to counterbrace the yards i e to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another...
Flounce
To throw the limbs and body one way and the other to spring turn or twist with sudden effort or violence to struggle as a horse in mire to flounder to throw ones self with a jerk or spasm often as in displeasure...
Serpentine
Resembling a serpent having the shape or qualities of a serpent subtle winding or turning one way and the other like a moving serpent anfractuous meandering sinuous zigzag as serpentine braid...
Snuggle
To move one way and the other so as to get a close place to lie close for comfort to cuddle to nestle...
Contest
Contest, the meaning of the word 'contest' is according to Black's Law Dictionary, to make defence to an adverse claim in a Court of law, to oppose, 'resist or dispute; to strive to win or hold: to controvert, litigate, call in question, challenge to defend. The contest continues right up to the final decision or, in other words the right to contest comes to an end only when a final decision is given one way or the other putting an end to the litigation between the parties with regard to the alienation, Darshan Singh v. Ram Pal Singh, 1992 Supp (1) SCC 191: AIR 1991 SC 1654. 1665, [Punjab Customs (Power to Contest) Act, (2 of 1920), s. 7]...
Drop
Drop: When the members of a court are equally divided on the argument showing cause against a rule nisi, no order is made, i.e., the rule is neither discharged nor made absolute, and is said to drop. In practice, there being a right to appeal, it has been usual to make on order in one way, the junior judge withdrawing his judgment; see e.g., Bunch v. Great Western Railway Company, (1886) 17 QBD 217....
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